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20 Sep
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Posted by Musashi
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Spotted this on Roger Ebert’s Twitter feed – it’s a photo essay of a Tibetan sky burial. In case you’re not familiar, Tibetans lay out their dead as a feast for hordes of predatory birds.
It’s pretty gruesome, but fascinating. If you’ve got a strong stomach (warning – lots of pics of a flayed corpse), check it out. I don’t think I’ll be eating steak for a while…or chicken, for that matter.
| Category: News, Pictures | Tag: big ass birds, funerals, gross, roger ebert, tibet |
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18 Jun
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Posted by Musashi
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This weekend’s release of the Jonah Hex film prompted me to consider the man who helped create the character, Filipino comic-book artist Tony DeZuniga. Unbeknownst to many American comic book fans, Filipinos have had a huge influence on mainstream comics – Ernie Chan, Alex Niño, Carlo Pagulayan, Whilce Portacio, Nesto Redonodo, Romeo Tanghal, and Lenil Yu are all names that are likely familiar to comic book readers, but I imagine few were aware of their cultural background.
I’ve been meaning to write a full overview of Filipino comic book artists (and still might someday), but for now here’s a gallery of Mr. DeZuniga’s work.
| Category: Pictures | Tag: art, comic books, filipinos, jonah hex, tony dezuniga |
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18 Jan
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Posted by Musashi
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Manriki-gusari – a traditional ninja weapon – once owned by late Beat author William S. Burroughs. Photographed by Peter Ross. The rest of the set can be seen here. (via Boing Boing)
| Category: Pictures | Tag: beat, cool, literature, ninja, photography, william s. burroughs |
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18 Dec
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Posted by Musashi
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This is what mountains look like when they’re about to get all explode-y.
(Full size version at the Nasa Earth Observatory)
| Category: Pictures | Tag: explode-y, mayon volcano, NASA, Philippines, space |
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26 Oct
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Posted by Musashi
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In case you were wondering if China was in fact a polluted shithole, here’s a whole gallery to help you make your travel plans that much easier. Good fucking Christ, is it just me or does this look like the latest Red Faction game?
| Category: News, Pictures | Tag: china, Crap, pollution, red faction, sad, video games |
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18 Aug
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Posted by Musashi
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| Category: Events, Pictures | Tag: conventions, Gen Con, gen con indy |
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29 Jul
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Posted by Mazinga
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| Category: Cool Links, Pictures | Tag: Anime, cosplay, otaku |
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26 May
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Posted by Musashi
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9 Apr
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Posted by Musashi
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Somebody needs to be plugged into their protein pod-feed, stat...
| Category: Pictures | Tag: clones, dictators, kim jong-il, north korea |
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18 Nov
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Posted by Musashi
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I’ve been meaning to get off my lazy ass and post these for a couple weeks now. My son is a rabid Ghostbusters fan. I picked up the Ghostbusters/Ghostbusters II DVD combo about 18-months ago and for whatever reason he promptly sat through the original film about twice a week for six months straight. He hums the incidental music to himself when occupied with other things and knows the name of every character, major and minor. Seriously – it’s scary.
So when Halloween time approached this year, when asked what he wanted to be for Halloween, his response was: Peter Venkman! Of course, being me – I procrastinated until October 29th before hacking out his costume in desperation over the course of two days. I fabricated a proton pack and proton accelerator out of spare shipping material lying around the office and computer cables from home and accented it with vinyl graphics I produced at work. I made the night vision goggles out of swimming goggles and two small sections of PVC pipe. Elbow and kneepads were purchased at Wal-Mart and the shirt, shoes, and pants came out my son’s wardrobe (tan utility jumpsuits for four-year-olds apparently aren’t a regularly stocked item at most department stores, so we had to make do).
The whole think took about 1-1/2 days to assemble from first tinge of panic to the last coat of paint.
More pics after the jump…
| Category: Pictures, Uncategorized | Tag: cosplay, ghostbusters, halloween |
